monkease writes: "The cover story of this month's Harper's, "How to Rig an Election," (excerpt, subscription required) examines in incredible depth the use of voting machines in today's elections, statistical discrepancies in polling and election results, and the unwillingness of the political and journalistic establishment to address what are, at best, gross security flaws and conflicts of interest. This has been covered on Slashdot for about the past decade, but never that I've seen with such a broad lens."

I haven't read "Who's Counting" but every time the author talks about his favorite example (I saw him on Bill Maher's show and then went googling for details) - the 100,000 fraudulent votes in 1982 in Chicago he's always super-vague. After about an hour of digging I could not find anyone saying that any significant number of those 100,000 would have been prevented with voter-id. I got a vibe that it was primarily ballot-stuffing, not voter impersonation, that happened there.

Minnesota Majority says it has been "stonewalled" by Hennepin County officials to whom it presented its findings. But in neighboring Ramsey County, Phil Carruthers of the local District Attorney's office says he takes the charges "very

Thanks for that. For some reason I did not key on the name "Minnesota Majority" the first time around. Googling for that brings all kinds of info to light. Most relevant of which is that none of the cases were the kind of thing that voter-id would fix - they all registered and voted as themselves, no double-voting or impersonatio. It also appears to have simply been an error on their part, they just didn't realize they were ineligible to vote, it wasn't a conspiracy.

I did not mean to obscure the magazine's perspective in my description; Harper's is for sure a "left"-leaning mag, just one that's been around way, way, way, way longer than the modern notion of "left".

FTA:
"In a 2007 Dan Rather exposé, The Trouble with Touch Screens, seven whistle-blowers at Sequoia charged that company executives had forced them to use inferior paper stock for ballots during the 2000 election. What’s more, said the whistle-blowers, they had been instructed to misalign the chads on punch cards destined for the Democratic stronghold of Palm Beach County."

I'm not sure how this wasn't big news and Donald Trump still is. But the trouble with whistleblowers is they have perhaps